Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

A Criminal in Custody NPG D46361

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John ('HB') Doyle, published by Thomas McLean, printed by General Lithographic Establishment

As Lord Paget, Anglesey served with great distinction as cavalry commander under Sir John Moore during the retreat to Corunna in 1809, the 'Dunkirk' of the Peninsular war. He was prevented from serving under Wellington's in the Peninsula by a scandal: he ran off with Wellington's brother Henry's wife Lady Charlotte Wellesley. Wellington, though, was happy to accept him as a subordinate for the Waterloo campaign, crushing a colleague who reminded him of Anglesey's reputation with: 'I'll take good care he don't run... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.